Power sharing not threatening APC , says Ngige

Senator Chris Ngige on Thursday in Abuja denied reports that issues of power sharing was threatening the stability
of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) in the South- East . He said that it was untrue that the Igbos were divided over the position of the Secretary to the General of the Federation ( SGF) . Ngige made this known while interacting with newsmen at the sidelines of the visit of a delegation of Ohaneze Ndigbo to the President- elect , retired Maj. - Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

" We cannot say for now that our party has zoned the position of the SGF to the South- East because we have a standing committee that is still working on distribution of party offices . “ The import of what is happening , like you said, is that in the executive branch now the South- East is not represented at all and in the legislature , we will not be represented because we have no senator from the South- East of Nigeria .

“ We have two House of Representatives members who are not ranking and might not get any meaningful position in the end. “ It is in that wise that the people you saw here last week and today again have been consistently asking for position of SGF to come to the South- East , ” he said.

Reiterating that there was no rancour in their camp , Ngige said, “you can see we are a disciplined people in the South- East , forget about what people are saying in the newspapers . ” “ We have a caucus and that caucus has met on that position ; we are only waiting for the party to officially tell us this is your position and we will submit the name .

“ We have come to a decision but when we get to the bridge we will cross it ; let the party say South- East this is your position then we will not waste even one hour in submitting a name , ” he said.
Also speaking to newsmen, Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo , Chief Raph Obioha , said there was a feeling among the Igbos of political imbalance in the polity. “ There is a creation and a feeling of an imbalance in the political equation; there must be a tripod in the political equation of Nigeria but that tripod seems to be missing one leg .

“ If it is not truly harnessed well, it cannot stand but Buhari gave the assurance that he would treat the entire nation as his constituency for all and we believed him, ” he said.